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Mairasi

Language
Mairasi

Family
Mairasi

Ethnologue
zrs

ISO
zrs

glottolog_id
nucl1594

Nouns table

gloss layer 1 sg 2 sg 3 sg 1 pl 2 pl 3 pl
type 1 prefix o ne na ee e ne

Person table

gloss layer 1 sg 2 sg 3 sg 1 pl 2 pl 3 pl
drop (animate obj) lexeme imbiomnai
drop (animate obj) prefix zero zero zero zero zero zero
drop (animate obj) suffix omo ono emi osi oi emi
drop (inanimate obj) lexeme imbionggai
drop (inanimate obj) prefix zero zero zero zero zero zero
drop (inanimate obj) suffix onggai onai emai osei oiei onggei
fall (intr) lexeme imbien
fall (intr) prefix zero zero zero zero zero zero
fall (intr) suffix on en en es ei en
possessed noun prefix o ne na ee e ne
possessed noun suffix zero zero zero zero zero zero
possessed noun lexeme

Verbs table

gloss layer 1 sg 2 sg 3 sg 1 pl 2 pl 3 pl
drop (animate obj) lexeme imbiomnai
drop (animate obj) prefix zero zero zero zero zero zero
drop (animate obj) suffix omo ono emi osi oi emi
drop (inanimate obj) lexeme imbionggai
drop (inanimate obj) prefix zero zero zero zero zero zero
drop (inanimate obj) suffix onggai onai emai osei oiei onggei
fall (intr) lexeme imbien
fall (intr) prefix zero zero zero zero zero zero
fall (intr) suffix on en en es ei en

Mairasi notes

  • Object marking suffixes (which distinguish all 6 person-number combinations) follow subject suffixes; only animate objects are marked. TAM markers do not interact with these.
  • Peckham (1982: 77) cites an example of a single root inflected with all three possible subject series:
    imbi-om-nai ‘I drop him’ (-nai is the 3sg object marker)
    imbi-onggai ‘I drop it ’
    imbi-en ‘he falls’
  • The possessive prefixes listed here are also used as indirect object markers on verbs.

References

Peckham, Lloyd.1982. Mairasi verb morphology. Workpapers in Indonesian Linguistics 1. 5-96.